Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Heavy at heart; sad; mournful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective feeling or affected by sorrow or unhappiness.

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  • adjective Sad.

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  • adjective depressed

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Examples

  • The leads were allowed to be most heavyhearted — say, after having to take out a foe whose humanity was briefly glimpsed — but hard-heartedness was kept generally to the casting margins, or acknowledged under the cover of exigency.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • The leads were allowed to be most heavyhearted — say, after having to take out a foe whose humanity was briefly glimpsed — but hard-heartedness was kept generally to the casting margins, or acknowledged under the cover of exigency.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • He's sexy and animalistic and he is so heavyhearted it makes me want to grab him up and make him happier ...

    Bonds of Justice Nalini Singh 2010

  • The leads were allowed to be most heavyhearted — say, after having to take out a foe whose humanity was briefly glimpsed — but hard-heartedness was kept generally to the casting margins, or acknowledged under the cover of exigency.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • White people were a highly uncommon sight this deep in the backcountry, Hawk explained; even the missionaries rarely visited here, and the few that did left heavyhearted.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • White people were a highly uncommon sight this deep in the backcountry, Hawk explained; even the missionaries rarely visited here, and the few that did left heavyhearted.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • White people were a highly uncommon sight this deep in the backcountry, Hawk explained; even the missionaries rarely visited here, and the few that did left heavyhearted.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • The spret emerges from the shadows, from the crook of the branch, grim-eyed and heavyhearted.

    When Rose Wakes Christopher Golden 2010

  • “People do it all the time, Isabelle,” her mother said in a weary voice, a V of disappointment or worry or sadness or some heavyhearted combination of all three appearing between her eyes.

    Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

  • “People do it all the time, Isabelle,” her mother said in a weary voice, a V of disappointment or worry or sadness or some heavyhearted combination of all three appearing between her eyes.

    Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

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